Short ram vs. CAI

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Hey guys,

Wasn't sure where to put this so I put it in general.

After doing my Intake this weekend and posting about it on the 4G forums, here is some of the feedback I got from them regarding CAI vs. Short ram.

After talking about it in person with Scheides, Kevin, Chris, Matt D etc they all agreed i'd be best with short ram, but these guys seem to disagree.

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"cool glad you love it now, but as far as the cai goes your friends are dumb. Sorry to say but you would need to hit way more then just a decent sized puddle to cause any problem. More like submerge the filter like a submarine and rev the piss out of the car. Eh to each their own though, all I know is I like the air coming off the raod a lot better then I would my hot engine, but what do I know

peace"

"dry isnt the problem. My point was you actually really need a lot of water sucked into the cai to cause a problem. if the filter gets a little wet or heaven forbib to run through a puddle that gets it all wet, you should be fine.

the problem really comes in if you are driving through a ton of water and have the filter submerged. if it is submerged in water and you are driving, you a sucking water right ip into the engine. this will of course cause an issue. puddles heavy rain etc should not"

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Biggest reason i'm asking is it's going to be raining pretty much all week, so would it maybe be a smart idea to convert it to CAI for the week and see how wet the filter gets after driving to work and then back home all week?

Seems to me like with the CAI your only protection vs water is the filter opposed to having quite a bit more distance from the ground with short ram, if it gets wet enough the engine is going to pull water right off it and straight into the engine... does it take a good amount to do damage, or is just a little going to cause damage?

I do want to be careful because the car is new (to me at least, it's like 2+ years old) so I don't want to get fucked by something like a hydrolock. But at the same time these guys are claiming even puddle splashes on it wouldn't effect it.

And then of course i've seen at LEAST 2 people come onto the forums going "HOLY SHIT WTF HAPPEN TO MY ENGINE!?!!? IT RAINED AND NOW IT WONT START????" ... and shit like that makes me very uneasy.